5/30/2012

Beirutiat & Rahbanyat - بيـروتيـات و رحـبانـيات.

Wasabi, babes?

Here are more cassettes, LPs, and CD albums from 70's & 80's Lebanon. This is a great collection of Leb-Pop compilations collected and assorted by enthusiasts and commercial music companies in Lebanon and the Middle-east like the famous EMI-La Voix de L'Orient Series and the rare VoB Beirutiat Series (Voice of Beirut).

Fairouz.

Note: The Rahbani Brothers arrangements were taken from a television late-night show that aired in the 70's called Sa'ah We Gheniyeh (An Hour And A Song), and it was very popular way back then. Enjoy as you are about to DL one of the most exciting sounds that came from Lebanon ever.

That's all for now, folks. Enjoy the beats. Fairouz takes a bow, too in that animated pic as you can see, because it's time to make way for another country from the Middle-east... guesses? Anyone?

The Arabs' Artist: Mohammed Abdou.

It's The Saudi Arabian Kingdom, or Saudi Arabia. Our upcomin' Arab singer was actually nicknamed "The Arabs' Artist". Please, be sure to check the upcoming new post here at the Audiotopia for it'll feature one helluva singer whose life wasn't that easy when he first began his career, but now is considered one of the wealthiest Arab singers (if not the wealthiest...): Mohammed Abdou.

Mohammed Abdou.

The new post is going out as a dedication for Yazeed from yazeed.net. I must admit as I often do these 'Ode-To' posts here that... in all honesty, I don't know any blogger for whom I give such a dedicatory post from a bar of regular soap. All I can offer them (so far they've been Nick@ GhostCapital, Tim Abdellah@ Moroccan Tape Stash, Gerrit@ LolaRadio, and Gary Sullivan@ BodegaPop) is a small post or two for one or more of the singers they feature at their own blogs. I know, I might sound strange 'ere but I do it for the sheer love of music. Full-stop.

So, be prepared: Mohammed Abdou (Abu Nourah, or Abu-Abdou as he's known as by millions of 'Abdaoui' fans) will get... shall I spell the beans? Ohkay... 100 albums! Correcto mundo, ya heard it right: One hundred albums! His post is going to be so ginorhumoungiantigargantuan!! I already started with ripping some of the album cassettes, in addition to writing a short biography full of the rarest pictures that, I am sure, even hardcore Saudi fans have never seen before.